Myopia Clinical Studies: Retail Optometry Hates Them2021-11-10T02:42:25+00:00

Science.  The garlic to most online vision improvement vampires (of your wallet and sanity).  You won’t find many links to Google Scholar and clinical studies and optometry journal articles on most vision improvement sites.  Why?

We wont dare to speculate (or speak ill of the unicorn farmers).  But here you will find discussion about vision biology, about discoveries in optometry science, and many studies and articles relevant to understanding myopia and your eyesight.

Polycarbonate Lenses – Bad For Your Eyes?

Science time.  Fasten your seatbelts! Before we get into it, let's address the clickbait title.  It's exactly about that, this post.  Getting baited and scared into buying things.  Know how they get you! First, I want to show you that clinical science knows a lot, a whole lot more about the eye than most of the retail outlets we have all frequented for myopia advice.  Let's see that the so-called optometry medicine has little to do with optometry science.  Retail optometry owns the right to make certain claims [...]

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Coopervision MiSight Contact Lenses: A Breakthrough In Myopia Control?

A contact lens, specifically marketed to children, said to prevent high myopia? Coopervison MiSight contact lenses present a complete paradigm shift in commercial, mainstream myopia control.  They should be making news worldwide for their break with tradition, and wild claims that focal planes affect myopia development. But nobody is really talking about them.  Why? Let's take a look at what Coopervision claims with their MiSight contact lenses: "Reduces Myopia Progression" "Reduces myopic progression, for better vision when not wearing glasses [...]

Retail Optometry: Is That Even Science?

I swear, I keep saying I'll stop posting things that are anti retail optometry.  It's pretty difficult though in the face of continually seeing some of these really shockingly ignorant practices that beg to be called out.  Also:  There are lots and lots of great, fantastic, knowledgeable and dedicated optometrists that we love dearly.  This post, not about them. Science.  You trust science.  And professional degrees and certifications.   As you should, really.  It's the best way to vet the proven vs. the [...]

Myopia Madness: Are Your Glasses (Way) Too Strong?

Are your glasses way too strong?  How can you tell?  And if they are, is that a (huge) problem? These are questions most people don't ask.   And yet this is exactly where mainstream optometry myopia treatment and optometry science tell completely different stories.  Your average optometrist is taught to give you as much minus as possible (for the best possible symptom treatment, letting you see as clearly as possible).  And yet the science shows that too much minus increases the [...]

Ophthalmology Science: “Glasses Cause Myopia.”

Let's do this again, kittehs.  For the sake of repetition. Glasses. Cause. Myopia.  Glasses. Cause. Myopia.  Glasses ... That much isn't a debate.  Yes, you could argue that Jake is nuts, you could argue that having too much time and money turned Jakey into a raving lunatic, you could argue that proclaiming yourself an eye guru is a clear sign of mental instability. Jake = Totally unstable, mentally. But that part only concerns how we address stopping and reversing myopia.  That part yes, [...]